As for the word that you have spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto you.
James 1:23 - King James 2000 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; American Standard Version (1901) For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: Common English Bible Those who hear but don’t do the word are like those who look at their faces in a mirror. Catholic Public Domain Version For if anyone is a listener of the Word, but not also a doer, he is comparable to a man gazing into a mirror upon the face that he was born with; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. |
As for the word that you have spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto you.
Whosoever comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like:
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
For now we see in a mirror dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.